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tits_mcgee 's review for:
The Body Artist
by Don DeLillo
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Very strange, and very sad. A small, flowery ghost story about grief and mental health.
"What did it mean, the first time, a thinking creature looked deeply into another's eyes? Did it take a hundred thousand years before this happened or it was the first thing they did, transcendingly, the thing that made them higher, made them modern, the gaze that demonstrates we are lonely in our souls?"
DeLillo's prose is beautiful, it flows poetically to conjure an emotional, eerie atmosphere, throwing you into the deep end of melancholic loss and depression with a ghost story twist; a wonderful short read for us masochists, who are addicted to sad books.
"What did it mean, the first time, a thinking creature looked deeply into another's eyes? Did it take a hundred thousand years before this happened or it was the first thing they did, transcendingly, the thing that made them higher, made them modern, the gaze that demonstrates we are lonely in our souls?"
DeLillo's prose is beautiful, it flows poetically to conjure an emotional, eerie atmosphere, throwing you into the deep end of melancholic loss and depression with a ghost story twist; a wonderful short read for us masochists, who are addicted to sad books.